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Minnesota Child Victims Act Year One : Find Justice (update)

The Minnesota Child Victims Act is now a year old and has two more years to go. (update) Due to the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Bankruptcy the deadline there is now Aug. 3, 2015. The Minneapolis Tribune took time for the anniversary to…

By Mike Bryant

/ 15 Jul 2014

Minnesota Child Victims Act Year One : Court Involvement

The Minnesota Child Victims Act is now a year old and has two more years to go. The Minneapolis Tribune took time for the anniversary to look at how it is going. The story was interesting for its overview, but there are areas that are…

By Mike Bryant

/ 10 Jul 2014

Minnesota Child Victims Act Year One: The Numbers

The Minnesota Child Victims Act is now a year old and has two more years to go. The Minneapolis Tribune took time for the anniversary to look at how it is going. The story was interesting for its overview, but there are areas that are…

By Mike Bryant

/ 8 Jul 2014

Why Parents Inhibit the Reporting of Child Abuse

The more and more I am around survivors, I hear all sorts of reasons for why these horrific attacks were either reported or not reported. So many cases of the supposed right people being told and assurances being given and then nothing is done. Transfers…

By Mike Bryant

/ 18 Jun 2014

Why Does The Media Care About Dumb Lawsuits?

Last week, I saw a couple of stories about some guy who sued a group of people in New York for $2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Yep, that is a lot. But other than a way to use up a bunch of zeros, does this story have any value…

By Mike Bryant

/ 9 Jun 2014

Meaning from Memorial Day

It’s Memorial Day. Thank You to every solider that has served this country and to all those that continue the work today.

By Mike Bryant

/ 26 May 2014

Do You Have Child Victim Act Questions?

Do you have questions about the Child Victim Act? There is a lot of information out there. – What is it? It a window that has been opened in Minnesota from May 2013 to May 2016 which allows anyone who was sexually abused as a…

By Mike Bryant

/ 24 May 2014

“Normally, common sense would dictate that we withhold information from the public………”

That statement was found in the disclosure of files done by the Archdioceses of Minneapolis and St Paul. As reported by the Minnespolis Tribune the context and rest of the quote was: The archdiocese files show how abuse complaints were addressed at the chancery, at…

By Mike Bryant

/ 20 May 2014

Richard Eckroth, St. John’s, Named in Lawsuit on Behalf of Two “Cabin Kids” Press Conference

Media Advisory May 18, 2014 St. Paul News Conference Monday Five Priest Files Obtained in Doe 1 Civil Lawsuit to be Publicly Released Tomorrow Richard Eckroth, St. John’s, Named in Lawsuit on Behalf of Two “Cabin Kids” What: At a news conference on Monday in…

By Mike Bryant

/ 18 May 2014

The Justice of the Child Victims Act

Before 2013 there was a statute of limitations in Minnesota for survivors of child sexual abuse. For many years, the offenders and the church were able to hide behind this protection. They could fight using the statute of limitations and knew that unless fraud was…

By Mike Bryant

/ 17 May 2014

Situational Pedophile: Safer??

Last Month, St. Cloud Bishop Donald Kettler and St. John’s Abbot John Klassen went in front of the St Cloud Times Editorial board to talk about clergy abuse allegations. It is worth the time to watch all of it. I will from time to time…

By Mike Bryant

/ 14 May 2014

Father Jerry Served in St Cloud: Gerald Funcheon

Recently, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis released the name of Gerald Funcheon, adding him to the list of credibly accused priests who have been in that Archdiocese. So far no other list in Minnesota has included him. Looking at his record, he was…

By Mike Bryant

/ 12 May 2014